MaverickNH
NES Member
I saw this book mentioned in NRA’s Rifleman magazine and just sent for it from Amazon. Recently visiting an estate attorney, my wife and I enquirer about how one might handle a situation where one of us becomes sufficiently mentally disabled that guns should be removed by the home for storage elsewhere. The NH lawyer said they don’t deal with such issues and made recommendations wrt healthcare proxies - not much help. We plan to formalize a document where the family can limit access if a mental healthcare professional finds one of us mentally incompetent to do other common stuff safely, like driving, walking in the woods, cook, etc.
My father-in-law always said, if his wife predeceased him, that when his time came, he’d take a last long walk in the woods with a gun - and we shouldn’t come looking for him too quickly, so the wildlife could scatter the evidence. Sadly, he went first from kidney failure. But I have the same sentiments.
I had reviewed a manuscript for Annals of Internal medicine in 2020 that reported on caregiver surveys on guns and dementia - two reviewers gave it an unequivocal thumbs up, as it recommended more medical intervention and training on the dangers of guns. I pointed out that the survey actually indicated the caregivers overwhelmingly felt that things were being dealt with well enough by family members, whether the caregiver was a family member or an external party. The editor rejected the paper. It got re-worked to remove that data and analysis and published in JAMAOpen with several big-name gun control academics on the author list. They only kept the parts about caregivers having little no training on guns and their opinion that professionals should be involved, not the parts where no intervention seemed necessary. I wrote editors of both journals, both of whom did nothing…as expected.
My father-in-law always said, if his wife predeceased him, that when his time came, he’d take a last long walk in the woods with a gun - and we shouldn’t come looking for him too quickly, so the wildlife could scatter the evidence. Sadly, he went first from kidney failure. But I have the same sentiments.
I had reviewed a manuscript for Annals of Internal medicine in 2020 that reported on caregiver surveys on guns and dementia - two reviewers gave it an unequivocal thumbs up, as it recommended more medical intervention and training on the dangers of guns. I pointed out that the survey actually indicated the caregivers overwhelmingly felt that things were being dealt with well enough by family members, whether the caregiver was a family member or an external party. The editor rejected the paper. It got re-worked to remove that data and analysis and published in JAMAOpen with several big-name gun control academics on the author list. They only kept the parts about caregivers having little no training on guns and their opinion that professionals should be involved, not the parts where no intervention seemed necessary. I wrote editors of both journals, both of whom did nothing…as expected.